Joel McCrea
Joel Albert McCrea (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) was an American actor whose career spanned a wide variety of genres over almost five decades, including comedy, drama, romance, thrillers, adventures, and Westerns, for which he became best known. He appeared in over one hundred films, starring in over eighty, among them Alfred Hitchcock's espionage thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940), Preston Sturges' comedy classics Sullivan's Travels (1941), and The Palm Beach Story (1942), the romance film Bird of Paradise (1932), the adventure classic The Most Dangerous Game (1932), Gregory La Cava's bawdy comedy Bed of Roses (1933), George Stevens' romantic comedy The More the Merrier (1943), William Wyler's These Three, Come and Get It (both 1936) and Dead End (1937), Howard Hawks' Barbary Coast (1935), and a number of western films, including Wichita (1955) as Wyatt Earp and Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country (1962), opposite Randolph Scott. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel McCrea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Movies
The Most Dangerous Game
6.945
The Palm Beach Story
7.013
Foreign Correspondent
6.979
Dead End
6.981
Colorado Territory
6.92
The Great Moment
5.8
Ride the High Country
7.048
Ramrod
6.5
Buffalo Bill
5.8
Union Pacific
6.5
The Unseen
4.5
Sullivan's Travels
7.432
Four Faces West
5.6
Hollywood Story
6.6
Primrose Path
6.5
The More the Merrier
6.8
These Three
7.1
Internes Can't Take Money
6.3
Bird of Paradise
4.848
Barbary Coast
6.6
Come and Get It
6.8
Fort Massacre
6
The Gunfight at Dodge City
5.63
The Great Man's Lady
6.3
Adventure in Manhattan
5.8
The Lost Squadron
6.3
Girls About Town
6.4
The Silver Cord
7.1
The Virginian
6.1
Woman Chases Man
5.6
Kept Husbands
5.3
Private Worlds
6
Born to Love
5
Rockabye
6.2
The Oklahoman
5.6
Espionage Agent
5.9
Rough Shoot
6.2
Trooper Hook
6.6
Stranger on Horseback
5.4
The Sport Parade
5.3
Splendor
6.3
Stars in My Crown
6.9
The Richest Girl in the World
5.643
Chance at Heaven
5.7
Wells Fargo
5.154
Border River
6.2
Bed of Roses
6.3
Cattle Drive
6.107
Gambling Lady
6.3
The Great American Cowboy
6
The Common Law
5.5
The Tall Stranger
6.5
Wichita
6.292
Saddle Tramp
6.3
They Shall Have Music
6.1
The First Texan
6.1
The Outriders
6.9
The Silver Horde
5.3
Banjo on My Knee
5.8
South of St. Louis
5.6
The Fair Co-Ed
5.5
Gunsight Ridge
6
Dynamite
6.393
The Lone Hand
5.2
So This Is College
4.2
The San Francisco Story
4.8
One Man's Journey
7.1
He Married His Wife
5.1
Frenchie
5.7
Mustang Country
4.7
Cattle Empire
6
Woman Wanted
6.3
Business and Pleasure
4
Three Blind Mice
6
Dead Man's Curve
0
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
3.3
Reaching for the Sun
6
Scarlet River
4.5
Our Little Girl
4.8
Two in a Crowd
0
The Divine Lady
5.304
Youth Takes a Fling
1
Once a Sinner
0
The Single Standard
6.2
Black Horse Canyon
5.9
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
7
Lightnin'
3.7
The Young Rounders
0
Breakdowns of 1940
4
Sioux Nation
8.5
Cry Blood Apache
2.333
The Crowning Experience
5
The Enemy
5.5
Half a Sinner
0
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
6.4
Stars on Horseback
0
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
5.6
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
7.429
Night of 100 Stars
6.667
Framed
5.3